Notice2025-05763
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed eCollection eComments Requested; Extension of a Previously Approved Collection; National Use-of-Force Data Collection
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April 4, 2025
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Justice Department
Abstract
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Department of Justice (DOJ), will be submitting the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 64 (Friday, April 4, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14869-14870]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-05763]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
[OMB Number 1110-0071]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed eCollection
eComments Requested; Extension of a Previously Approved Collection;
National Use-of-Force Data Collection
AGENCY: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice.
ACTION: 60-Day notice.
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SUMMARY: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Department of
Justice (DOJ), will be submitting the following information collection
request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and
approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
DATES: Comments are encouraged and will be accepted for 60 days until
June 2, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have additional comments
especially on the estimated public burden or associated response time,
suggestions, or need a copy of the proposed information collection
instrument with instructions or additional information, please contact
Linda Shriver, Acting Unit Chief, Crime and Law Enforcement Statistics
Unit, FBI, CJIS Division, Module D-2, 1000 Custer Hollow Road,
Clarksburg, West Virginia 26306, telephone: 304-625-4830, email:
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#ef83839c879d86998a9daf898d86c1888099"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="83efeff0ebf1eaf5e6f1c3e5e1eaade4ecf5">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Written comments and suggestions from the
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public and affected agencies concerning the proposed collection of
information are encouraged. Your comments should address one or more of
the following four points:
--Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the functions of the Bureau of Justice
Statistics, including whether the information will have practical
utility;
--Evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information, including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
--Evaluate whether and if so how the quality, utility, and clarity of
the information to be collected can be enhanced; and
--Minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who are
to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic
submission of responses.
Abstract: The FBI has a long-standing tradition of collecting data
and providing statistics concerning Law Enforcement Officers Killed and
Assaulted (LEOKA) and justifiable homicides. To provide a better
understanding of the incidents of use of force by law enforcement, the
FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program developed a data collection
for law enforcement agencies to provide information on incidents where
the use of force by a law enforcement officer led to the death or
serious bodily injury of a person, as well as when a law enforcement
officer discharged a firearm at or in the direction of a person. When a
use of force incident occurs, federal, state, county, local, tribal,
and territorial law enforcement agencies provide information to the
data collection on characteristics of the incident, the victim(s) on
which force was used by law enforcement, and the officers who applied
force in the incident. Agencies positively affirm, monthly, whether
their agency did or did not have a use of force incident that resulted
in a fatality, a serious bodily injury to a person, or a firearm
discharge at or in the direction of a person. When no use of force
incident occurs in a month, agencies submit a zero report. Enrollment
information from agencies and state points of contact is collected when
the agency or contact initiates participation in the data collection.
Enrollment information is updated no less than annually to assist with
managing the data. The data collection defines a law enforcement
officer using the current LEOKA definition: ``All local, county, state,
and federal law enforcement officers (such as municipal, county police
officers, constables, state police, highway patrol, sheriffs, their
deputies, federal law enforcement officers, marshals, special agents,
etc.) who are sworn by their respective government authorities to
uphold the law and to safeguard the rights, lives, and property of
American citizens. They must have full arrest powers and be members of
a public governmental law enforcement agency, paid from government
funds set aside specifically for payment to sworn police law
enforcement organized for the purposes of keeping order and for
preventing and detecting crimes, and apprehending those responsible.''
The definition of ``serious bodily injury'' is based, in part, on Title
18, United States Code, Section 2246 (4), to mean ``bodily injury that
involves a substantial risk of death, unconsciousness, protracted and
obvious disfigurement, or protracted loss or impairment of the function
of a bodily member, organ, or mental faculty.'' These actions include
the use of a firearm, an electronic control weapon (e.g., taser), an
explosive device, pepper or oleoresin capsicum spray or other chemical
agent, a baton, an impact projectile, a blunt instrument, hands-fists-
feet, or canine.
Overview of This Information Collection
1. Type of Information Collection: Extension of a previously
approved collection.
2. The Title of the Form/Collection: National Use-of-Force Data
Collection.
3. The agency form number, if any, and the applicable component of
the Department sponsoring the collection: There is no agency form
number. The applicable component within DOJ is the FBI's Criminal
Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division.
4. Affected public who will be asked or required to respond, as
well as the obligation to respond: State, local and tribal governments,
and the Federal Government. The obligation to respond is voluntary.
5. An estimate of the total number of respondents and the amount of
time estimated for an average respondent to respond: A total of 12,861
agencies are enrolled in the National Use-of-Force Data Collection as
possible respondents. The FBI estimates it will receive 94,340 incident
reports per year. The estimated time to complete an incident report is
38 minutes.
6. An estimate of the total annual burden (in hours) associated
with the collection: The FBI estimates the total annual burden hours
for this collection as 59,749 hours (94,340 incident reports x 38
minutes per report/60 = 59,749).
7. An estimate of the total annual cost burden associated with the
collection, if applicable: The estimated monetary cost burden for
supplies, storage, or the like for this information collection is $0.
Incident reports are submitted to the FBI through an online system
maintained and operated by the FBI.
Total Burden Hours
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Number of Total annual Time per Total annual
Activity respondents Frequency responses response (min) burden (hours)
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Use of force incident report................... 12,861 Variable............................... 94,340 38 59,749
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Unduplicated Totals........................ 12,861 ....................................... 94,340 .............. 59,749
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If additional information is required contact: Darwin Arceo,
Department Clearance Officer, United States Department of Justice,
Justice Management Division, Policy and Planning Staff, Two
Constitution Square, 145 N Street NE, 4W-218, Washington, DC.
Dated: March 31, 2025.
Darwin Arceo,
Department Clearance Officer for PRA, U.S. Department of Justice.
[FR Doc. 2025-05763 Filed 4-3-25; 8:45 am]
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